Latest news with #Amorphous
Hypebeast
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
teamlab Biovortex Kyoto Set To Open This Fall
Summary Opening this fall, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto will be the latest permanent immersive art museum by the acclaimed collectiveteamLab. Located nearKyotoStation, the museum is part of the city's broader urban revitalization initiative. This project aims to establish a dynamic cultural and creative hub, fostering a new synergy around art, youth, and innovation. The concept behind 'Biovortex' suggests a swirling center of life and interconnectedness, themes deeply resonant with teamLab's artistic philosophy. Among the highlighted installations, 'Massless Amorphous Sculpture' stands out as a floating, shape-shifting entity, composed of foam-like material that maintains its form even when people enter it. This piece embodies teamLab's exploration of masslessness, creating a seamless blend of digital and tangible elements. The immersive journey continues with other key works designed to challenge perception. 'Massless Suns and Dark Suns' presents a constellation of glowing orbs that shift based on human presence. As visitors widen their perception, dark spheres emerge, existing solely within the viewer's cognitive reality, making each experience uniquely personal. Another installation, 'Morphing Continuum,' is designed to stretch across both space and time, continuously regenerating as visitors immerse themselves within it. Additionally, 'Traces of Life' offers an interactive experience where visitors' movements create ephemeral trails, symbolizing the interconnectedness of individuals within the art space. Unlike teamLab Planets Tokyo or teamLab Borderless, which feature seasonal themes, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto will showcase a rotating selection of immersive works, ensuring a constantly evolving experience for returning visitors. For more information, visit teamlab's officialwebsite. teamLab Biovortex Kyoto20-1 Higashikujo Higashiiwamotocho,Minami Ward, Kyoto, 601-8006, Japan
Otago Daily Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Trumpeter's tones triumph
Wellington-based jazz trumpeter and composer Michael Costeloe. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A full house at Hanover Hall heard guest jazz trumpeter Michael Costeloe, of Wellington, play his compositions with Dunedin Jazz Club stalwarts Nick Cornish (alto saxophone), Bill Martin (piano and keys), and Carl Woodward (drums) with Wellingtonian Simon Eastwood (double bass). Costeloe has an enviable pedigree in performance and composing augmented by sojourns overseas. His performance stamina and credibility are phenomenal. Wonderful attention to rapidly woven rhythms, baroque-like melodic intricacies, overlapping harmonies and clever, energetic ensemble writing propel the music. The opening number, Zeno's Arrow, though overly repetitive, is the epitome of his frame of mind and ability to glean ideas from everyday sounds. The variety of his style ranges from the lazy bluesy triplets in The Coven and in the delightfully sinuous Amorphous which neatly evokes Greek zephyrs and enervating heat; the bass openings in To the Ninth Degree and the speed of Loose Unit. Clever writing for the drums shines in the brushes ofand compulsively disjointed patterns in His melodic sensitivity is revealed in the smooth poignancy of Fall from Grace. All musicians gave exemplary ensemble and solo performances. All have finely tuned rhythmic understanding and ability to lean into the harmonic nuances and sometimes brutish energy. All are a delight to watch. Cornish has an extraordinary ability to draw out a dissonance. Martin has a crisp touch and seminal ability to add vocal complexity to solo section harmonies. Eastwood is able to improvise over a diverse range of genres and Woodward is a revered Dunedinite with deep overseas experience. Costeloe's appreciation of what Dunedin's jazz fraternity has to offer should inspire his return.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
L3Harris unveils Amorphous autonomy software to manage drone swarms
L3Harris on Monday unveiled a software platform, Amorphous, for controlling large swarms of uncrewed systems across multiple domains, allowing aerial drones, ships and other platforms to operate together seamlessly. The software is designed with an open architecture to be platform-agnostic and scalable. To date, the company has demonstrated the ability to connect multiple systems, but it envisions Amorphous eventually managing thousands of payloads — a key requirement for the U.S. Defense Department as it looks to better integrate uncrewed systems into operations. Jon Rambeau, president of integrated mission systems at L3Harris, told reporters in a briefing last week the company's vision is for Amorphous to serve as an orchestra conductor, helping operators command and control autonomous systems. 'One of the big problems that has yet to be solved is, how do you think about the control of, not 10, not 100, not even 1,000, but thousands of assets simultaneously,' Rambeau said. 'That's really not something that's possible to do with human control only.' While some concepts for autonomous command-and-control rely on a 'mothership,' a single platform serving as the brains of a fleet of uncrewed systems, L3Harris envisions Amorphous coordinating a 'leaderless swarm,' according to Toby Magsig, vice president and general manager of enterprise autonomous systems. Under this approach, rather than rely on a single platform to communicate an operator's command, the entire fleet of systems would share the message and deconflict on which platform would perform which parts of the mission. This alleviates some of the mission risk should the mothership lose its communication link or be shot down, Magsig said in the same briefing. Amorphous has already made its debut in prototypes the company is developing for various Pentagon programs, including Replicator, and has its roots in work the L3Harris has done for the Navy's Project Overmatch and Army Research Laboratory experimentation. For Replicator — the Pentagon's high-profile effort to field thousands of uncrewed systems by next August — L3Harris was selected in November alongside Anduril Industries and Swarm Aero to demonstrate the ability to coordinate hundreds or thousands of platforms through an effort called Autonomous Collaborative Teaming. Managed by the Defense Innovation Unit, the program is looking for software that can be upgraded iteratively and can run on any hardware system. Rambeau said the company recognizes the need for open architecture and has demonstrated Amorphous can integrate with a variety of platforms. He also noted that L3Harris worked with several smaller firms to support the software's user interface and autonomy algorithms. 'A truly open architecture with published interfaces that anybody can plug into is going to be a really critical element of success,' he said. 'That's one of the things that we put into this design.' Magsig declined to offer much detail on the Replicator demonstrations that Amorphous has supported, but said the software has been involved in a few events and 'there's many more to go.'
